REMAX.COM Remains Most Popular Real Estate Brokerage Web Site For Consumers

The http://www.remax.com/ Web site continues to rank as the most visited Internet destination among all real estate brokerage brands, earning a Hitwise Top 10 Award for the July-September quarter of 2008. Hitwise is a leading online competitive intelligence service that looks at how Web sites are used.

The RE/MAX site ranked fifth in online traffic among all real estate related sites during the quarter and was the top ranked brokerage site, averaging more than 2 million unique visitors each month.

“The strong showing http://www.remax.com/ consistently achieves in the Hitwise monthly ranking of real estate Web sites confirms that consumers think of RE/MAX as synonymous with ‘real estate,’ and it is a brand they trust,” said Jim Merrion, regional director of the RE/MAX Northern Illinos network, the Chicago real estate leader.“Using http://www.remax.comg/ gives Chicago real estate consumers access to 95 percent of multiple listing services in the United States, as well as property listings in more than 60 other nations. It allows buyers to search listings all across the country and provides sellers with valuable data about neighborhood property values,” he said. “What’s more, in today’s market, a growing number of property owners and families are turning to RE/MAX agents to help them rent homes they own or find homes to rent.”